It’s becoming more and more difficult to rattle fashion’s gilded cage and set the industry on a new course, making young upstarts more important than ever, argues Alexander Fury, a member of the recently launched BoF 500.

Meet the duo behind London’s coolest label, Meadham Kirchhoff (Independent) “And then there’s Meadham Kirchhoff, consisting of the designers Edward Meadham and Benjamin Kirchhoff, whose clothes are as desirable as they are marginally deranged, whose hair and make-up is reminiscent of Leigh Bowery’s in his heyday and whose mise-en-scène has been known to transport the audience everywhere from a hyper-real flower

Stretching from its denim roots, Acne's silhouettes of cinched waists and low-slung trousers were targeted at the too-cool-for-school crowd | Photo: Morgan O'Donavan for Dazed Digital

LONDON, United Kingdom — Just when you thought London Fashion Week had reached it’s apogée, along came another stellar season of shows from London-based designers who are setting the pace for fashion around the world with their vibrant digital prints, cutting-edge development techniques, and kooky concoctions and accessories. All the while, our favourite roving backstage photographer, Morgan O’Donovan, was documenting

Legendary fashion writer and BoF contributing editor Colin McDowell has been attending and reviewing fashion shows for more than 30 years. Who better to give us the lowdown on one of the best London Fashion Weeks in recent memory? LONDON, United Kingdom — Each season, despite challenges, London continues to raise the stakes, in terms of both creativity and, dare I say it, commercial potential. Here, I’ve assembled my top choices of